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Very Fond of Food: A Week of Cooking with Sophie Dahl

Like Sophie Dahl,Very Fond of Food: A Year in Recipes (out today by Ten Speed Press) is beautiful, accessible, and an admirable blend of thoughtfulness and wit. “This is perfect for a Sunday night supper when there are few around and you can eat this on your lap, a poached egg on top of it, watching a good old costume drama,” she notes of a simple yet wholesome recipe for seasoned mushrooms on toast. A follow-up to her bestselling 2010 cookbook, Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights: Recipes for Every Season, Mood, and Appetite, _Very Fond of Food’_s recipes are deeply personal: A recurring dream of pineapples during her pregnancy accounts for Pineapple and Mint Granita; a failed attempt long ago to woo a teenage crush gives us Heartbreak Carbonara. “The carbonara in the pan lingered longer than he did. He wolfed it down with a bottle of Chianti, and informed me he was actually in love with a dancer called Willow (or something infinitely more exotic than Sophie),” she admits. Ever the astute and poetic observer, the Vogue writer and former model chronicled five days of her life at home, cooking, writing, and caring for her infant daughter, Lyra.